Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

B DOMESTIC. An orange tnist is being formed. ■ Natural gas has been discovered at Aitken, Minn. Old Hatch is still at work on Chicago wheat The price reached 104 J on the 22d. The California .Legislature adjourned so that its members could attend a prise fight x ■ , Placer gold is said to have been discovered on the Missouri river in Montana. Johnny Humphreys, aged ten, dieci at Philadelphia from a fright given him by youthful White Caps. » The' twenty-one-year-old daughter of a millionaire es Newport, R. 1., eloped with the family eoacnman. A paper read before the Historical Society New York stated that there were 6,536 lawyers in New York. Tim and Pete Barrett were executed st Minneapolis, Minn., on the 22d, for the murder of a car driver in 1887. . The Missouri Sureme Court affirms the sentence of death against Dane Walker, chief of the,Bald Knobbers, May 10. Barnum’s Hotel at Baltimore, one of the most famous houses in the country, ) ’’ s to be converted to other purposes. The latest from the Lower California gold mines is that the whole thins is a “fake.” Gold exists, but not in paying quantities.

There was a threatening riot at Fall River, Mass., Friday, among the strikers, but it was stopped before any one was seriously injured. A conflict of troops and boomers occurred in Oklahoma, Tuesday. Several were hit, but no one killed. The troops were victorious. Daniel S. Lamont, ex-secretary of exPresident Cleveland, has been elected President of one of the New York street railway companies. The aged widow of Cyrus W. Field fell Friday at National City, Cal., and broke her shoulderblade. She is not expected to survive. The discovery of lead and silver on ttje farm of Judge G. W. Craddock, near Frankfort, Ky., is causing great excitement in that neighborhood. *..• . The Dominican Consul at New York, has been dismissed for aiding the Haytian rebels in violation of the neutrality laws of the United States. New York parties are before the Michigan Legislature with a scheme ' to cut a ship canal across the upper peninsula, connecting Lakes Michigan and Superior. The elders of the St. Paul Methodist Episcopal church at Lincoln, Neb,, suspended Rev. Mr. Winehart for a year for introducing Salvation Army methods in the church.

The live stock and meat inspection , bill has been signed by the Governor of Colorado. It practically prohibits the importation of meats from Chicago and other Eastern packing-houses. The Standard Oil Company has purchased property at St. Louis Bay, in West Superior, Wis., and will erect a plant, to cost $200,000, and make Superior their distributing point for the Northwest. Charlie Fow, a trusted clerk of Sing Kee, a Chicago Chinese merchant, has disappeared, taking with, him all his employer’s savings—about SI,OOO. Charlie is supposed to have gone to Canada. Four steamships landed 1,930 immigrants at Castle Garden, Sunday. The Etruria, from Liverpool, brought 746; La Champaign, from Harve, 595; City of Chicago, from Liverpool, 303, and the Polynesia, from Hamburg, 286. John Melcher, a farmer, while looking into the mouth of a stallion at Gallion,O., with a view to buying it, had his left thumb bitten off by the vicious beast, pulling the cords out from the elbow and making a horrible wound. The 160 boy inmates of the House of Refuge, at Cincinnati, made a bold dash for liberty, Sunday, under the leadership of four of their number. The insurrection was soon quelled, without damage to property or injury to person. J. J. Sutton, a lawyer of Columbus, Wis., is being sued by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad lor 39 cents, as a counter suit to one by him for $5,000 damages for being put off a train because he wouldn’t pay his fare. A bill before the Illinois Legislature makes tampering with a locomotive a felony, and should death be caused by a wreck in consequence of such tampering tho offender shall be liable for murder. . ■ «. A large Newfoundland dog went mad Tuesday morning in the streets of New York and before he was killed bit and multilated three persons. There was wild excitement for a time. The wounds of those bitten were promptly canterfeed. ' The employes in the machine shops of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, at Altoona, were notified, Saturday, that hereafter nine hours will be considered a day’s work, with a half holiday, on Saturdays. This affects about 4,000 mbn. ' Perov Cochrane, of Eau Claire, Wis., shot Will Bailey with a revolver loaded with blank cartridges while they were toaotift ng for amateu r theatricals. The revolver was held too close and blew Bailey’s eye out. Cochrane has been arrested.

At the sale at Ohickering Hall, New York, of the Erwin Davis collection of paintings, Bastian Lepage’s “Joan of Arc” brought $23,400 and Trovon’s “Pasturage in Normandy” brought 117,500. In all, 143 paintings which were sold, brought $243,960, Mollie Sandow, of East Saginaw, Mich., ageo six years, was standing on a high chair, Wednesday, holding a lead Eencil in her hand. She fell backward, er hand behind her. The pencil penetrated her back an inch from the spine, going in three inches. She will die. Believing the revolver he held to be empty, William Clinchman, of St Paul, Minn., aged fifteen years, Monday, snapped it at Birdie Lucas, and a bullet lodged in her brain. The boy has been arrested. The bullet was extracted, and the girl is alive, although dangerously hurt The Democrats of Brooklyn have determined to erect in that city a bnilding similar to Tammany hall of New York. They will expend $50,000 for a site and SIOO,OOO for the building. The sum of 473,000 has already been secured, of which $5,000 was subscribed by Mayor Chapin. Natural gas having been discovered

in the vicinitv of Aitkin, Mich., a natur-al-gas and oil company is about to be formed, with a capital stock of $1,000,000 A large amount of land has been secured, and it is expected that work will commence as soon as the necessary arrangements can be perfected. Robert Sigel, of New York, son of Gen. Frans Sigel,*Who pleaded guilty to forging pension checks, was sentenced by Judge Benedict in the United States robbers, serving a six years’ term at Joliet, was released Sunday on a pardon issued by Grover Cleveland. He turned States’ evidence, and his accomplices are now under arrest. A fire at Dover, N. H., on the 22d destroyed many of the most prominent buildings in the city. The fire originated in the city hair and spread to the high school cadets’ armory, council chamber and opera nouse. The Belknap church was badly damaged, and the Gedden’s block was destroyed. The total loss is very large. Patrick Trainer, a Cincinnati brute, ran a red hot poker through his wife’s cheek on the 22d. Her jaw was broken. Physicians say blood poisoning will most certainly follow, and cause her death. Trainer was arrested. Her offence was in saying, to his demand for dinner, that there was no food in the house, as she had not received pay for the last work she had done.

At Binghampton, N.’ Y., Monday, a three-story brick block in process of construction suddenly collapsed. At the time of the accident about a dozen, workmen were in the building. Fred Purcell, a tinsmith, was killed instantly. Two others, James H. Smith and Youmans Thompson, were quite seriously injured. Others escaped without injury. * -D Among the passengers on the steamship Australia from Honolulu Friday was Claus Spreckels, who had been paying an extended visit to his sugar plantation in Hawaii. He stated that the crop of the plantation will pxpeed the estimates by about crop of the islands, it is strfted, will T)? about 125,000 tons, or the largest in the history of the islands. John Giddons was shot and killed, at Greenville', Tex., Wednesday, by his son, McGangle Giddens, a boy of seventeen. The boy had frequently asked his father for a pistol but had been refused. He secured possession of a weapon, and while playing with it was discovered by Mr. Giddens, who asked for an explanation, and this so alarmed the boy that he turned the weapon on his father, shooting him through the breast.

George R. Carlton, bookkeeper for Smith Bros. & Co., at Seattie, W. T., sent a notebto the firm on Monday, together with the safe keys, saying that he « as ill and would not be down that day. Inquiry was made at Carlton’s lodgings and it was learned that he had left the city. An examination of the books shows that Carlton is an embezzler to the amount of $20,000. He came West from Chicago, and had, been in the employ of Smith & Co. for the past year. The New York World says Ex-Presi-dent Grover Cleveland has been elected a member of Tammany Hall and will “ride the goat” at the first meeting ,jn April. Mr. Cleveland will be supported on the occasion of his initiation bv his ex-Secretary of State, Thomas' F. Bayard, and ex-Secretary of the Navy, Whitney, both old members of the Columbian Order, and at the same meeting his ex-Secretary of the Interior Wm. F. Vilas, will be made a Tammany brave.

A large party of tramps boarded a freight train on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railway, near Alliquippi, Pa;, Sunday night, and for five hours held the train, refusing to allow the Crew to move the train unless permitted to ride on it. A telegram was sent to‘Pittsburg for assistance and a special train, with officers was sent to the rescue. Twelve tramps were arrested, but a forge number of others escaped. Those arrested were sent to the work house, Monday. " t A fight occurred, Tuesday night, in a suburban sporting place st Los Angeles, Cal., between two Japanese gifs who had quarreled. Thegirls used short Japanese swords and attacked each other. Each proved skillful in the use of the weapon and both were soon dripping with blood from numerouschts. The affair would certainly have ended in the death of one, if not both, had not the clash of steel attracted a passing Soliceman, who entered the place, hither girl received mortal wounds, but both Were slashed all over the upper part of the body. > ■ ■ - .

Circulars to the stockholders of the North Chicago Bolling Mill Company, the Union Steel Company and the Joliet Steel Company, calling a special meeting for May, with a view to their consolidation into one concern, have been issued. The capital stock will be $25,* 000,000. Fifteen million collars of ft will represent the combined plants of the three companies. Five million dollars will be in cash as working capital. Five million dollars will remain unissued in the hands of the Treasurer, to be used in making such changes as occasion may require, I Anarchists Lucv Parsons was the chief speaker in the Twelfth street Turnei hall, Chicago, at a celebration of the eighteenth anniversary of the Paris commune. About two thousand five hundred people were present, and they exchanged significant glances when Mrs. Parsons shouted, “We want a revolution, whether peaceful or bloody, no difference; a revolution must come.” She declared she had but one object in life—to make rebels of them all. At a later anarchist meeting an anarchist, named Cook made use of this expression. “Ihey have hung the anarchists, but they don’t care to hang any more.” This met with such favor that a motion was ipade asking the reporters to make special mention of the same. At Perry, Ga., Jake Blackshear’s wife did not have dinner ready for him when Court, Thursday, to six years’ imprisonment at hard labor in the Erie county penitentiary. The prisoner exhibited great nervousness as Judge Benedict told him that he had wronged many person’, and that it was difficult to find any circumstance to warrant a mitigation of punishment. Sigel’s young wife wept bitterly in the rear of the court room when she heard the sentence pronounced. When the pr soner was being taken back to jail his brother fainted in the hallway outside the court room, and was unconscious for an hour. The Com missioner of Pensions has requested persons swindled through Sigel to communicate with the Pension Office in Washington. Clara Hagans and Edward Matthias, of

Clifton, S. C., eloped and were married Monday, and Matthias took his wild to his home. J. 8. Hagans, the father of the girl, who is a wealthy farmer, and bitterly opposed the suit, armed with a shoemakers knife, visited the house. Immediately upon entering the house he made a desperate attack upon Matthias, stabbing him in the neck just below the ear, and inflicting a probably fatal wound. The bride interfered and was stabed in the arm. Hagans has been arrested. ' The Pennsylvania Coal Company at Scranton, Penn., informed the miners that a “shut down” had been decided upon, to take place at once. This general suspension affects nearly 2,000 men. The company has been operating fifteen large collieries. The officers of the company at the mines say that the shut down is only temporary. ..Old pc inert say that in eleven years there has not been so continued a period of dullness as at the present time. For the past six. months the men have been working one-fourth time. Their earnings have not exceeded sls a month and have frequently fallen as low as $6 a month. The miners as a rule live in rented houses, the monthly rent of which average from $6 to SB, leaving not more than $9 at best with which to support their families.

There was a meeting at the academy of music in New York under the auspices of the New York citizens’ committee in aid of the National Confederate soldiers’ home at Austin, Tex. Gen. H. H. Barnum presided. Many grand army men were in the audience, including Gen. T. T. Chittenden and Gen. Carl Schurz. There were also numerous Confederate veterans present. Major Joseph H. Stewart, one of the directors of the home, was the principal speaker. He spoke at length in behalf of the exConfederate soldiers, reviewing the establishment of the Confederate soldiers’ home at Austin, Tex., and concluded as follows: “And while we would fight and die—yes, we mean it—die, if need be, to maintain the honor and integrity of the grand old flag, we will ever cherish the tenderest recollections of ‘the lost cause’ and the flag that was never destined to float among tne emblems of the nations.” II fall !

FOREIGN. Floods have done enormous damage in Prussian Silesia. Cnoiera has broken out virulently in the Philippine islands. Five hundred deaths have occurred. Steamers have already arrived at St. Johns, Newfoundland,with 200,000 seals; This is very early in the season, and some of the vessels will make two more trips to the fishing regions. ■> , Emin Pasha defeated six thousand Mahdists in July, killing most of them, and capturing their steamers and ammunition. Chief Senonssi has also occupied Darfour and Kordofan, expelling the dervishes. A band of Mexican outlaws, led by Santos Basaldna, the abductor of Juan Garcia, crossed over into Texas, presumably with the intention of abducting a rich ranchman, but were driven back by a party of rangers, and two of them Were Killed while crossing the river. Two of the rangers were wounded. China mail advices, concerning the loss of the Spanish steamer Remus along the Philhpfne Islands, says that forty-two lives were lost out of 169 people on board. The Remus was engaged in the coasting trade, but at the “time was taking oUt.orders to their various stations on ther Pbillipine Islands and struck a reef near Point Biliarm, about two days’ voyage from Manilla, sinking in thirty-five fathoms of water. The surviving. officers and passengers were picked up by the gunboat Argus.

SUPERIOR COURT’S DECISION.

The Board of Public Work*, and Police and Bea,d Acte 1 for Indianapolis Declared Unconstitutional. The Marion county Superior Court, Monday, handed in two.opinions in the cases testing the constitutionality of the Public, Works and Police and Fire Board acts for this city. The majority opinion, written by Judge Howe, Judge Walker concurring, maintains that the bills are unconstitutional. Judge Taylor dissents. He finds the bills sound and valid- The opinions Were heard with profound interest by crowded Courtrooms. , However, the Supreme Court’s opinion will be the final test. The cases by common consent go at once to that tribunal. Judge Hpwe, in his opinion on the Board of Works Act, bases his conclusions on decisions that local and special legislation is void. In the police and fire bills, sections requiring that the forces shall be drawn equally from two parties, are unconstitutional, but the Court does not pass on the question whether this vitiates the entire act. The epinion is very long, and inferentially it will be seen ’that the majority opinion maintains that the failure of the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House to sign bills after they were vetoed is not avital objection. This bears on other cases in controversy, as does also the opinion that the claims that the Governor has the exclusive right to fill all offices created by tbe Legislature is not well taken..

ACQUISITION OF CUBA.

Since the appointment of Minister Palmer to be Minister to Spain he has held frequent consultations with the President and Secretary of State. It transpires that he is receiving instructions to open negotiations with a view of peacefully acquiring Cuba. As heretofore announced, Mr .'Blaine hasa welldefined desire for the acquisition of Cuba, and he proposes now to pioceed as fast as possible in carrying out his proposed policy regarding annexation. Mr. Palmer, it has been said, has entertained similar views upon this subject, and this is one of the reasons assigned for his being appointed Minister to Spain. It will be remembered that, some two years ago, efforts were made by the previous administration for the annexation of Cuba, but for some reason nothing came of. them. Mr. Blaine, however, is more pronounced in his views on the subject than was his predecessor, and it is believed will push the matter to the end. < . ' / “Women’s troubles are only little ones,” moralised Terwilliger. “When> woman gets a spot on her dress she need only tuy a yard of ribbon, make a bow out of it, sew it over the mark, and nobody knows the difference; ■ but when a man get« a spot, on his trousers he must buy anew pair.”—New York Sun.

LOME’S YOUNG DREAM.

Chief’ JuyMce Fuller** Daughter Ran* A way te'fte Married—A Chloaga Komanee Terminated. Miss Pauline Fuller, the fifth daughter of Chief Justice Fuller, was married in Milwaukee Tuesday night at the Kirby House by a Justice of the Peace. The groom was J. Matt Aubery, Jr., of Chicago, and it was a runaway match. When the 6:30 train arrived last evening a petite woman was helped ofi tne steps of the parlor-car by a well-knit young man with a smooth face. The lady was closely veiled and was escorted to a carriage by her Companion. They were driven at once to the Kirby House where they registered. No room was assigned to them and the lady and her companion spent the early evening in the hotel parlors. About 9 o’clock the young man came down stairsand informed the clerk that he wanted a Justice of the Peace. Inside of fifteen minutes Justice Gregory arrived. There was a hurried consultation, and then the yeung man brought the blushing young lady forward. The ceremony was a brief one, and the Justice, who is a very prosaic old gentleman, put on no extra frills.' He did not know that the bride was the daughter of the Chief Justice of the United States, and neither did any of those who were present outside of the contracting parties. When the ceremony was concluded the old Justice called for witnesses, and twe young men were captdred in a billiard room and ran to fix their signatures to the necessary document. The knot was legally and firmly spliced. Mrs. Aubery is nineteen years of age, highly educated and a remarkably handsome woman. J. Matt Aubery, Jr., is twenty-three years of age. He is the son of the General Western Agent of the Merchants’* Despatch fast freight line. J. M Aubery. t?r., has been a resident of Chicago since 1876, when he left Milwaukee. He is well-known here, and Congressman Isaac Vanschaick is one of ■ his most intimate friends. Young Aubery is employed in his father’s office in Chicago, He is a handsome young iellovg. As near as can be learned theacquaintance of the bride and groom began about three years ago. Justice Fuller, who was then plain Lawyer Fuller, lived with his eight daughters on Lake avenue, only A short distance from the home of young Aubery. The young people first met at a party given in the neighborhood. An attachment sprang up between them, and when it became apparent it was opposed by the Fullers. Miss Pauline declared, " however, that she would marry whom she pleased, and her father recognized her right to do as she pleased. Mrs. Fuller continued to oppose the match. About this time lawyer Fuller was named as Chief Justice of the Unjted States. Mrs. Fuller packed up and carried Miss Pauline away to Washington With the other Misses Fuller. About the Ist of last January Miss Pauline came to Chicago and has since remained in that city, visiting friends of the family. The story of the elopement of the young pair is an interesting one and demonstrates that young Anbury has cut his eye teeth. To begin, he hired two detectives to shadow him and his affianced until they left Chicago. His object was to learn if any one was following them and to prevent the young lady being rescued. It was early in the afternoon when he met Mies Fuller, and a Chicago candy was the trysting place. They boarded a Milwaukee & St. Paul train at the Union Depot at 3:30 o’clock and came direct to this city. Mrs. Fuller, wife of the Chief Justice, is going to Chicago to see her daughter and son-in-law. Despite her first inclination not to go, neither her husband nor herself could rest easy -until they have seen their daughter and been made acquainted with provisions for her future welfare. The hasty marriage has been a blow to them,

DEATH OF JUSTICE MATTHEWS.

Justice Stanley Matthews, of the United States Supreme Court, died at Washington on the 22d inst.. after a prolonged illness. Stahley Matthews was born in Cincinnati, July’2l, 1'824. He was graduated at Kenyon College in 1840, studied, lav an d was admitted to the bar, settling in Maury county, Tennessee. He shortly afterward returned to Cincinnati, early engaged in the antislavery movements, and in 1846 9 was an assistant editor of the Cincinnati Herald, the first daily anti-slavery newspaper in that city. He became Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county in 1851; was State Senator in 1855, and in 1858-61, was United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. In -May 1861,

he was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty-third Ohio Regiment, and served in West Virginia, participating in the battles of Rich Mountain and Carnifex Ferry, in October, 1861, he became Colonel of the Fiftyseventh Ohio Regiment, and in that capacity commanded a brigade in the Army of the Cumberland, and was engaged at Dobbs’s Ferry, Murfreesborough, Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain. He resigned from the army in 1863 to become Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, and was a Presidential Elector on the Johnson and Lincoln ticket in 1864 and the Grant and Colfax ticket in 1868. In 1864 he was a delegate from the JPresbytery of Cincinnati to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church in Newark, N. J., and as one of the Committee on Billsand Overtures reported the resolutions that were adopted by the assembly bn the subject of slavery. He was defeated as Republican candidate for Congress in 1876,7 and in the next year was one cf the counsel before the electoral commission, opening the argument in behalf of the Republican electors in the Florida case, and making the principal argument in the Oregon case. In March 1877 he was elected United States Senator in place of John Sherman, who had resigned, and served two years. In 1881 he was appointed Associate Justice of the United states Supreme Court, which position he has since held. In tbe United States Supreme Court immediately upon assembling the Chief Justice announced the death of Justice Matthews, and as a mark of respect to his memory the court adjourned till Tuesday. The immediate cause of death was exhaustion of the heart and congestion of the kidneys. The funeral of the late Justice Matthews was held at his residence Monday afternoon. The services were simple but impressive. There was'no address. President Harrison and members of Cabinet were in attendance, as were also members of the Supreme

Court and many Senators and members of the House. The body, which had been embalmed, lay in state in the parlor of the residence during the earlier part of the day and was viewed by friends of the deceased. Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justices acted as honorary pall-bearers, while the active pall-bearsrs were, according to custom, selected from among the messengers employed at the. Supreme Court. At 3 o’ clock the remains were taken to the depot to be conveyed to Glendale, Judge Matthew’s country home, near Cincinnati. The funeral services were held there and the interment was made in Spring Grove Cemetery. Justices Gray, fßlatchford, Harlan and Lamar accompanied the remains to Cincinnati.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The treasury surplus has been steadily increasing for several days past. It now amounts to $50,200,000, or $5,000,000 more than it was ten days’ ago. This increase is due to the great excess of receipts over disbursements since the first of the month. The receipts to date aggregate $23.200,( 00, while the expenditures during the same period amount to a little over $12,000,000, including about $2,000,000 paid out on account of pensions. Until recently the and expenditures have been pretty well balanced by the purchase of bonds, but this method of applying the surplus has been considerably hampered of late by the light offerings. The purchases have been confined to four-and-a-half per cent, bonds, but this is partly due to the high price asked for the four per cents. Secretary Windom has announced his purpose of continuing for the present, at least, the system of purchasing adopted by his predecessor, and that he would willingly increase the purchases if the offers permitted it. He has been urged to resume the purchase of four per cents, as a more profitable use of the surplus than the purchase ot four-and-a-half per cents. He declines, however, to make known his views on this subject beyond the statement that his policy ar to the fours must be determined by his treatment of the offers. The succession to the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Matthews is already being discussed, there being two programs laid out by those who talk. One is that Judge Gresham, now Judge of |he circuit comprising the States of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, will be nominated for Associate Justice. He would in turn be succeeded by Judge W. A. Woods, leaving a vacancy to be filled in the District of Indiana. The other program includes the transfer of Attorney General Miller tb the Supreme Bench, of Secretary Nobfle to the head of the Department of Justice and of Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson to the Interior Department. The proclamation opening up Oklahoma Territory to settlement was issued on the 23d, by President Harrisop. It will embrace about 1,800.600 acres of land. The country affected by the E reclamation is bounded on the South y the Canadian river, along that river in a northwestern direction for some distance, and thence due east to a point near the Pawnee reservation; thence south to the Cimarron river, along that river to the Indian meridian, thence due south along thalrmeridian until the Canadian river, the starting point, is reached. President Harrison told a friend that the reason he did not send more nominations to the Senate was because he had been keuUro busy listening to delegations and other callers in behalf of applicants for office that he had no opportunity to consider the cases that had been presented As soon as the crowd and he can find more time to ..devote to the consideration of the different applications he will make the appointments mpre rapidly.

The good people of the Church of the Covenant thought it would be a great card for them to rent a pew to the President, but it turns out to have been a nuisance, for public curiosity to see him is so great that the church is crowded every Sabbath morning with strangers and citizens of Washington who would, not enter the sanctuary for any othqr reason. The throng has become so great that the trustees of the church are coinpelled to have policemen to keep order and prevent strangers from crowding into pews where they do not belong. Senator Evarts had a long interview with the President, which caused a.re‘vival of the story that he will be appointed minister to England. It is the general opinion that Chauncey M. Depew has declined the,appointment, although no positive information of it can be obtained at the White House. The Treasury Department decided, Friday, that importations of broken wool tops are dutiable at 60 cents per pound as “tops” and not at 10 cents a pound as “waste.” It is suspected that the tops are broker to resemble waste, in order to evade the higher rate of duty imposed.upon “tops.” Justice Gray, of the Supreme Court, aged sixty-two, is to be married to Miss Jennette, daughter of Associate Justice Stanley Matthews. Her * age 11 is but thirty. 1 Offensive partisanship will be regarded es a good cause for removals of postmasters, so it is stated by Assistant Secretary Clarkson.

A DESPERADO’S DEEDS.

He Uses Pistols and Dynamite and Causes Much Txouble Generally. Jud. Cooley, a desperado widely known in Roane county, Tenn., went to the residence ofMack Brown late Monday night and called for Brown, with whom he had a quarrel of long-stand-ing. Byown. certain of being shot should he appear at the door, refused to come out, and Cooley, after waitings few minutes, threw several dynamite cartridges on the roqLfrom which they rolled to the ground. cxploding with such violence as to almort demoiis'i the bouse and severely injure Mu#. Brown. Cooley was arrested Wednesday but swore he would kill anyone who would testify against him. He was taken before a magistrate and drew a pistol on the /first witness called. Before he couftl fire, however, the Sheriff shot him Vin the head, without inflicting a serious wound. He was found gnilty, gave straw bail and has fled to North Carolina. A reward is offered for his recapture. —. • i # A lecturer says: “Fqlness under the eye donates language.” He has probably been knocked down for something he has said.

BEHRING SEA.

An Important Proclamation Will Shortly - Be lasaed by the A Washington special to the New York Poet of Thursday, says; “The President will soon issue a proclamation relative te the Behring sea which cannot fail to attract international attention. This proclamation will be the first information which most people will have that in the closing hours' of the last Congress an amendment was incorporated in the interterritoriai salmonfishing act which, in effect, declares that the Behring sea is a closed sea. By this legislative enactment, Congress has attempted to settle a grave point over which the nations have contended. The amendment, in its terms, extends the provisions 'of the salmon fishing act to seal fishing in Behring sea; that is to say, the act fdrbids the taking of seal by anyone not authorized by the act within the waters of the Behring sea. This does not exclude them merely from fishing on certain islands. The amendment is, of course, of the greatestwnportance to the Alaska Fur Seal Compahy, as it will preserve the seal fisheries for them. It is also of great importance to the American and Canadian .fishermen who may have been planning to engage m seal fishing in the open waters of Behring sea this season, as so many ot the Canadian vessels did last season. - The act authorizes the seizure of such vessels by United States revenue cutters. The proclamation of the President will call attention to this fact. The act may give' rise to important international complications. It is an attempt by legislative ’ enactment to settle an international question, which the great powers interested may consider still an open one.”

APPOINTMENTS.

The President sent the following nominations to the Senate Wednesday: John R. McFee, of New Mexico, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico. Frank R. Aikens, of Dakota, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme .Court of the Territory of Dakota. * Fred D. Grant, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary? and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Austria-H n ngary. John C, New. of Indiana, to be ConsulGeneral ot the United States at London. > Paul Fricke, of Texas, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Texas. ... The President sent the following nominations to the Senate, Saturday: James Tanner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., to be Commissioner of Pensions. James M. Shackleford, of Indiana, to be Judge of the United States Court for the Indian Territory Zacbariah L. Walrond, of Kansas, to be Attorney for the United States Court for the Indian Territory. Thomas B. Needles, of Illinois, to be Marshal of the United States Court for the-Indian Territory. Walter P. Corbett, of Georgia, to be Marshal of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia. Edwin Willits, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.

HEWAS NOT A TRAMP.

But Had Plenty of Money to Surprise Hta Bewildered Relative*. Daniel Maurry, brother of the wife of John W. Sayers, a wealthy slate manufacturer of Bangor, Pa., went West over thirty years ago. Becoming homesick, he disposed of his business to advantage and started eastward. Last Saturday afternoon, looking like a tramp, he appeared in Bangor, and was hooted at by boys whom he met. He entered the factory of Jot n Sayers, who recognized him, and, although ashamed of his appearance, took him to his home, where his wife, Murray’s sister, gladly welcomed him. He complained of poverty and old age, and desired a place where he could foe cared for. Mr. and Mrs. Sayers assured him that his home could be with them. Thanking them, with tears in his eyes, he reached into his boot and pulled out a roll of bills. From a waist-belt he took more greenbacks and a sack of gold; from a hidden pocket more money, and from another one more bills, until be had astonished them with thousands of dollars. He then said he thus appeared to test their worth. Shaved, bathed and clothed in a new Bujt which he extracted from his valise, he has paralyzed Bangorians.

How to Treat Tooth-Brushes.

Albany Journal, “If,” said a young lady in an Albany drug store, this morning, “you can sell me a tooth-brush the bristles of which will not come out as ter I have used it two or three times; I will buy one.” Said the druggist, as he placed before her a box of tooth-brushes: “I will tell you a secret about that matter. These crushes have been in the case for a long time. Now, when you buy one take it hi me and put it in water for an hour or two before you use it. The bristles are dry and are apt to come out when they are used. Always remember that when you buy a tooth-brush.” And she said she would.

THE MARKETS

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